Research progress of hollow-core Bragg fibers and their applications in sensing

Liang SHANG; CHUHongling; Yuan WANG; SHIXuexin; Lingling LIU; Yunzi ZHOU

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2017.02.001

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